Question

I have created a 3D cube in iphone using CALayer's. Now I wanted to rotate that cube(CALayer) at 90˚ when user double taps on it.

I was able to rotate that cube(CALayer) to 90˚ once but when I double tap the cube(CALayer) is not rotating.

Here is the code that I used to rotate the cube(CALayer)

CATransform3D x = CATransform3DRotate(currentLayer.sublayerTransform, M_PI / 2, 0, 0, 1);
currentLayer.transform = x;

Can anyone help in this. What I’m doing wrong.

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Answer 1

its because you are not changing the angle of rotation …. to understand this lets say you are passing M_PI/2 each time to that method …. so CATransform3DRotate do not rotate it to next 90˚ rather it rotate the layer to the specified angle in this case its 90… so you are not getting any chage because it already at 90˚ ….. so to get correct result do this

static float angle = M_PI / 2;//dont make it static rather make it a global variable
angle += M_PI / 2;
CATransform3D x = CATransform3DRotate(currentLayer.sublayerTransform,angle, 0, 0, 1);
currentLayer.transform = x;